Engelsk Sacrifices
Sacrifices Summary and Characterization
The story Sacrifices by R.J Ellory is about Kathleen Reynolds who works as a cop at the Fairfax County Homocide Division. Kathleen Reynolds has given up both husband, kids, her family and holidays, for her career. Later on in the text we are introduced to a woman named Bitsy whose mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Bitsy can't bear seeing her mother in agony, and therefore she overdoses the morphine that is used to relieve her mother's pain, with the consequence of her mother dying. Bitsy then calls the police to turn herself in for murder. At the end of the text it's then revealed that Bitsy and Kathleen Reynolds is infact one and the same.
The story is told as a 3rd person omnicient narrator. The language in the text is very descriptive and contains rhetorical questions such as “What else was there to do?” and “What would her father have said?”. The text is narrated delieberatly and stretches over a very short amount of time. The fact that the text is narrated like it is makes the text more exciting, in the sense that it feels like it's building up suspension, and something unpredictable is going to happen.
The main character in the text is Kathleen Reynolds also reffered to as Bitsy. Kathleen Reynold is lonely in the sense that she has chosen not to engage in social life like everybody else she has, on the other hand, chosen her career above everything else. We can interpret this from the following line; “Kathleen had two cellphones, one for her personal life, one for work. The personal one never rang. The work one rang constantly [...]”. Although Kathleen has chosen her work above everything else, she still thinks her line of work is hard, and from time to time traumatizing we can see this in the text from the lines; “She'd seen things that had aged her a year in an afternoon. Or she would be gone for a week, […] and return to find her colleagues had aged by a decade.” Kathleen is obsessed about obeying the
The story Sacrifices by R.J Ellory is about Kathleen Reynolds who works as a cop at the Fairfax County Homocide Division. Kathleen Reynolds has given up both husband, kids, her family and holidays, for her career. Later on in the text we are introduced to a woman named Bitsy whose mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Bitsy can't bear seeing her mother in agony, and therefore she overdoses the morphine that is used to relieve her mother's pain, with the consequence of her mother dying. Bitsy then calls the police to turn herself in for murder. At the end of the text it's then revealed that Bitsy and Kathleen Reynolds is infact one and the same.
The story is told as a 3rd person omnicient narrator. The language in the text is very descriptive and contains rhetorical questions such as “What else was there to do?” and “What would her father have said?”. The text is narrated delieberatly and stretches over a very short amount of time. The fact that the text is narrated like it is makes the text more exciting, in the sense that it feels like it's building up suspension, and something unpredictable is going to happen.
The main character in the text is Kathleen Reynolds also reffered to as Bitsy. Kathleen Reynold is lonely in the sense that she has chosen not to engage in social life like everybody else she has, on the other hand, chosen her career above everything else. We can interpret this from the following line; “Kathleen had two cellphones, one for her personal life, one for work. The personal one never rang. The work one rang constantly [...]”. Although Kathleen has chosen her work above everything else, she still thinks her line of work is hard, and from time to time traumatizing we can see this in the text from the lines; “She'd seen things that had aged her a year in an afternoon. Or she would be gone for a week, […] and return to find her colleagues had aged by a decade.” Kathleen is obsessed about obeying the